Chapter 001: National Olympics!

"Peng's long pass!"

"Yang Fan, Yang Fan! He's dribbling the ball, he's dribbling the ball! It's over, it's over! Go on, he'll continue to dribble with the ball!" Duan Xuan almost roared at the top of his voice.

This is the second stage of the men's football Asian qualifiers for the London 2012 Olympic Games, the match between the Chinese team and the Oman team.

In the first leg of the game, the Chinese team lost 0-1 at home!

After the game, everyone was saying that Yang Fan's absence due to injury was the reason for the Chinese team's loss, but in fact, without Yang Fan, the Chinese team did not play as well as Oman in that game.

It's now the fifth day after the first leg between the two sides, and it's the second leg between the two sides.

The score on the field was 1-0!

The Chinese team equalized the aggregate score, and now the two sides have entered extra time.

In the second half of the game, Yang Fan came on the field with an injury, and the Oman team was obviously prepared for this, and they adopted lethal tactics against Yang Fan.

And today's referee from Iran, Mohamsin Doki, also took a conniving attitude towards the lethal tactics of the Oman team.

Not only that, but in the last minute of stoppage time in regular time, the Chinese team once scored a goal, but it was blown off by the referee, and from slow motion, it was a clear misjudgment.

As the captain of the Chinese Olympic team, Yang Fan was furious, but Yang Fan, who was already very mature, held back his anger and stopped the anger of other players.

He knows

Today, he and his teammates will not only have to face the Omani opponent, the lethal tactics that the Omanis have used against him, the mournful cheers of the Arabs in the stands, but also the Iranian, the Iranian referee Mohansin Doki!

It's this night in Muscat, and the clouds are over!

But it can't press Yang Fan's backbone.

This is a counterattack opportunity for the Chinese team, ** Peng broke the ball in the backfield, and directly launched a long counterattack.

Yang Fan is galloping with the ball!

The footballer's number one star dribbled forward with the ball, and he made a beautiful change of direction past Oman defender Albarus, and he continued to run forward!

Oman defender Saad makes a flying tackle with spikes!

"Be careful!" exclaimed narrator Liu Jianhong.

Yang Fan didn't slow down, he picked up the football directly, and he jumped up himself, dodging this malicious flying shovel.

And then he landed!

Step on!

Catch up on football!

Facing the attacking Omani goalkeeper Saabi, Yang Fan's light hanging door!

The ball arced in a wonderful arc and crashed into the net behind Sa'abi.

"Yang Fan - Shot!!!! the ball is in! in! in! in! in!" Duan Xuan jumped and shouted.

"Yang Fan! Yang Fan! He scored!" Liu Jianhong shouted at the top of his voice, "Two to one! Two to one! We exceeded the score! Yang Fan, Yang Fan! No one could stop him! The Omani could not fly the tackle! The Iranian referee could not stop him from scoring! No one dared to blow this goal again!"

After the goal, Yang Fan raised his head to the sky and roared!

The goal of the Olympic qualifying stage of the game, with a star of his level, does not need to be so excited, but, considering the poor away environment of this game, this goal really has a reason to vent! That's right, this is not even a celebration of the goal, it is an emotional vent!

The broadcast camera showed the Iranian referee on duty in the match, Mohamsin Doki, who was expressionless.

Yang Fan's goal completely destroyed the fighting spirit of the Omani people!

They really began to realize what that star named Yang Fan meant, what a ferocious monster this was, they couldn't compete with it at all.

In the 105th minute, Yang Fan sent a wonderful pass, and Baal got the ball and shot into the net.

Yang Fan opened his arms, laughed, and hugged Baal, who ran over excitedly after scoring a goal, he liked this Xinjiang young man who was nearly two years younger than him, Baal had a hard work!

"Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!" Duan Xuan shouted, "Three to one! Three to one! Before the end of the first half of extra time, Baal scored another goal for the National Olympic team! Yang Fan's assist was really wonderful, he even had many people, and the Omanis were attracted to him, Baal was very smart in his position, and he shot directly after receiving the ball. ”

"In this game, we faced all kinds of difficulties, and the boys performed great! We are now getting closer and closer to the third stage of the knockout round!" Liu Jianhong said excitedly.

The 2012 London Olympics men's football Asian qualifiers are divided into three stages, and it is currently the second stage of the knockout round, if the Chinese team steps on the Omanis to advance, it will enter the third stage, the third stage is a total of twelve teams, divided into three groups, each group of four teams, to adopt a home-and-away format, the first place in each group to qualify for the London Olympics.

In the end, the final score of this game was five to one!

The Chinese Olympic team scored four goals in extra time to massacre Oman in Muscat!

And with a total score of 5-2, he advanced to the round of 12 in the third stage of the knockout round.

In the stands of Muscat, Duan Xuan and Liu Jianhong stood up and shouted excitedly, congratulating the Chinese team on reaching the top 12!

In the press gallery, Chinese journalists also hugged each other.

In their ears, the mournful trumpets of the Omanis were still ringing, unusually harsh.

These reporters on the scene know best that this game is not easy for the Chinese National Olympics.

Especially Yang Fan, it is even harder, it is not easy.

In this game, Yang Fan came on the field with an injury, like an iron-blooded general, leading the robe to fight, overcoming various subjective and objective factors, and winning a big victory.

All this that happened in Muscat was seen by fans all over China through TV signals, and at this moment, there were already cheers in China.

On June 23, 2011, Yang Fan led the Chinese Olympic team to defeat the Oman Olympic team 5-1 away in Muscat, and advanced to the top 12 of the men's football Asian qualifiers for the London Olympics with a total score of 5-2!

After the game, the team doctor of the Chinese Olympic team revealed a news, this game, Yang Fan was playing a closed game, and the news also continued to broadcast the game footage, Yang Fan was viciously fouled by the opponent again and again, the referee was indifferent, the Chinese team scored an effective goal, and the referee blew it off! In this case, Yang Fan scored a hat trick in overtime, leading the Chinese team to slaughter Oman 5-1!

The audience hated the Iranian referee and the Omanis, and cheered for Yang Fan and the boys of the National Olympic team!

This national Olympic team, known as the weakest team in history, under the leadership of the world's number one star Yang Fan, has placed great expectations and hopes on Chinese fans!

After the game, Yang Fan finally spoke, and he sarcastically ridiculed the referee of the game for forgetting to wear glasses. This caused an uproar.

The AFC referee committee released cruel words and asked Yang Fan to apologize.

However, in terms of public opinion, the media is basically on Yang Fan's side this time, not only the Chinese media, but also the European and American media are also very concerned about this matter, because Yang Fan participated in the Olympic qualifiers, so many fans in Europe watched the live broadcast of the game, and the fans' eyes were bright, and they saw clearly what the Iranian referee and the Omani players did.

Therefore, this time, the voice of the mainstream media in Europe also provided solidarity with Yang Fan.

Even the Catalan media "World Sports", which has a very bad relationship with Yang Fan, also ridiculed the AFC, "We are really surprised that Yang Fan did not hit people angrily, watching this game, we have a certain understanding of some characteristics of the AFC." ’

This matter was once a boiling soup.

Half a month later.

On 7 July 2011, the AFC Competition Department held the draw for the third stage of the London 2012 Olympic Preliminary Tournament in Kuala Lumpur.

According to the results of the 2008 Beijing Olympic qualifiers, the top 12 were divided into 3 groups and 4 pots, which also made the draw ceremony simple, and the final draw results were basically strong and weak. The three groups are evenly matched, with seeded teams South Korea, Australia and Japan considered to be highly likely to qualify directly, and then the second-placed teams from the three groups will play a tournament format, with the best teams playing two legs against African teams to determine a qualifying spot.

Group A: South Korea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan;

Group B: Australia, Iraq, China, United Arab Emirates;

Group C: Japan, Bahrain, Syria, Malaysia;

Among them, Group C Japan is the most optimistic about qualifying, after all, the strength of the opponents in the same group Bahrain, Syria and Malaysia is obviously weak, South Korea in Group A and Australia in Group B will face certain challenges, and the official website of the AFC, it focuses on Group B, they believe that the competition for the qualification places in this group will be extremely fierce, the Australians are superior, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates are also strong, but the Chinese Olympic team with Yang Fan will be the most unwilling opponent for all teams!

As for Yang Fan's previous criticism of the referee's law enforcement behavior, the AFC simply acted as a shrinking turtle this time, neither punishing Yang Fan nor punishing the Iranian referee.

In fact, for the AFC, which has many problems but is extremely arrogant, this is already equivalent to showing weakness, and the West Asian forces within the AFC use referee means to make profits, which is not once or twice, but this time they met Yang Fan and the world's number one star, this is a rebellious personality that no one buys face! This time, the West Asians also broke a bad tooth!

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After playing the game of the National Olympic team, Yang Fan disappeared from the public eye for a while, and he began to enjoy his vacation life. Even the paparazzi, who have the sharpest sense of smell, have not been able to find him for a while.

At this time, the transfer market on the European continent is in full swing.

The summer transfer market of 2011 continued the general pattern of European football in the past years: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Manchester United and other chaebols continued to call for wind and rain, and Inter Milan, Milan, Arsenal and other teams fought a little. But this year's European ball market, than in the past, there are many new elements: the Middle East and Russia's super-rich have become the supreme protagonists in the European transfer war, under the impact of the United Arab Emirates dirham and the Russian ruble, if La Liga still has Barcelona Real Madrid to resist, then the powers that do not burn money can only enjoy all kinds of "facelessness" in the tide.

This summer, the supreme figures in the transfer market are Manchester City's UAE boss, the Russian super-rich in the Russian Super League, the Qatari chaebol of Paris Saint-Germain, and even Malaga in La Liga. These clubs are attacking from all sides in the ball market, not only raising the overall value of the ball market, but even the target of their reinforcements is already to rob the traditional giants and trample on the dignity of these so-called strong teams!

For the Manchester City team, the transfer storm they created made the whole Europe look sideways, they first poached Nasri from Arsenal, and then poached Argentine goalscorer Sergio Aguero from Atletico Madrid!

Despite this, though, Manchester City are not the most remarkable.

If Manchester City poached Juventus Real Madrid's target Aguero and forcibly took Arsenal's core Nasri, it was still a few years ago that Manchester City poached Milan's target Dzeko, If Manchester United star Carlos Tevez continues these stories, then when Paris Saint-Germain waved a check to snatch Milan's target Pastore and Inter Milan coach Leonardo, and when the Russian Super League team offered an incredible 20 million annual salary to poach Inter Milan as a central striker Samuel Eto'o, it proves that the supreme transfer protagonist of today's continental football is the Middle East Russian chaebol with so much money that burns his hands.

In the past, the chaebols were only attacking mid-stream teams such as Wolfsburg and Porto, but now the chaebols are already trampling on the turf of giants such as Inter Milan and Arsenal. This summer, starting with Paris taking away the Inter manager, the Nerazzurri have been tormented in the market battles all summer, Arsenal have been poached one after another, and Arsene Wenger has also heard the sound of class...... The tragedies of Inter and Arsenal prove that the cheques of the plutocrats are enough to upend the entire landscape of European football and are leveraging the pyramid structure of the football industry!

In the past years, the ball market has always been engaged in various secret wars between the "rational management faction" and the "chaebol investment faction". Although the chaebols' gold yuan can always create miracles, there have also been teams such as Inter Milan (who sold Ibrahimovic in 2009 for a model deal of six reinforcements), Milan (who sold Ibrahimovic for 1/3 in 2010), and Arsenal (who sold people every year and occasionally reached the Champions League final) have been defending the threshold of "rational management" in recent years.

But this summer, Milan quarreled with a summer "Mr. X", but due to financial constraints, the candidates were demoted from Cesc Fabregas to Pastore, Hamsik, and then to Montolivo, and finally could only sign Liverpool's Aquilani and low-cost player Nocellino to end up.

Inter Milan came into the summer to put on a big show, and in the end not only did not bring in strong reinforcements (Sanchez, who had been chasing for a year, was taken away by Barcelona with a check), but on the contrary, they lost their number one superstar Eto'o (another superstar Sneijder was chased by the powers all summer), and finally could only sign the old pearl Forlan, and loan Zarate to fight the fire.

Arsenal suffered the worst, after losing Cesc Fabregas, Nasri, Klich and many other iron mainstays, and now they are looking to bring in the South Korean captain and Brazil problem international to put out the fire......

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Milan, Inter Milan, and Arsenal have become the most "high and low" teams in the summer football market, and an important reason is that after the chaebols raised the overall football market price, all the strategies of these teams based on "rational management" have been disrupted. This also poses a new problem for European football: under the premise that the Russian Premier League, the Premier League, La Liga, and French Ligue 1 have a large amount of money from the Middle East and Russia, and the prices of slightly powerful stars in Europe are speculated to be extremely high, how should the traditional rational management clubs find their own way to transfer in the new situation?

Serie A's brain drain, year after year, has reached its peak this season since the "phonegate" incident. Sanchez was taken away by Barcelona, Pastore joined Ligue 1, Eto'o went to the Russian Premier League, Sneijder, Thiago Silva and others were lured to varying degrees, and excellent stars such as Mane and Muslera fled one after another. Serie A has lost a number of cover superstars all at once, making the question of "how to keep the star of Serie A" has become a big problem for this troubled league.

This summer may be the most tragic brain drain crisis in Serie A since Ibrahimovic and Kaka fled at the same time in 2009. What's worse than 09 is that the Serie A of that year was only poached by the world's top teams such as Real Madrid and Barcelona at sky-high prices, but now Serie A has been poached by Ligue 1 and even the Russian Super League to poach popular stars. If the non-mainstream leagues dare to attack the popular stars of Serie A and can succeed, and if Serie A wants to poach people from the giants of the Premier League and La Liga, then what is the hope for the revival of Serie A?

In the brain drain crisis, many cancers within Serie A have been exposed, from state agencies, to various teams, to fans and media, there are many things that need to be reflected. The number one challenge in reviving a failed league is how to respect and retain the few remaining talents.

Of course, it is gratifying that Juventus, Roma and other giants have opened their money bags and introduced many stars including Vidal, Pjanic, Gago, Osvaldo, Elia, etc., to offset the "trade deficit" of Serie A to a certain extent, which shows that Serie A urgently needs more bosses who are willing to invest and urgently needs more large-scale transactions to save the market.

Under the new financial situation, the gap between the rich and the poor in Europe's major leagues continues to widen, and the gap in strength has also widened.

In the summer, new Champions League champions Barcelona made a move in the transfer market, first snatching Sanchez, a target for the likes of Inter Milan and Manchester United, and then after a summer soap opera, it is said that an agreement has been reached to poach Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas. With its exceptionally high income, coupled with the advantages of "membership system" and "low tax rate", Barcelona has quietly become a rich team with investment on par with Real Madrid and Manchester City.

All in all, after the hot money flow in the ball market this summer and the integration of the resources of each team, the gap between the chaebol super-rich and other teams with insufficient financial resources is widening. The same is true of the difference in strength between the major leagues, Manchester City swept Inter Milan 3-0 in the preseason, Barcelona slaughtered Napoli 5-0 in the Gamble Cup, and these chaebols of the Premier League La Liga beat the runners-up and third runners-up of Serie A last season with a blue nose and a swollen face. This also proves that the difference in strength between several major European leagues has also changed greatly because of their different financial resources and burning strengths.

More than a dozen mainstream teams in today's football have formed a confrontation between Manchester United, Manchester City, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and other "noble" groups and the "poor team alliance" led by Milan and Arsenal. In the past few years, no matter what kind of "trade deficit" has existed in the ball market, the overall combat power of the two groups is barely evenly matched. However, with the fierce transfer battle this summer, the balance of power between the two has changed radically, and this will directly shake the overall pattern of European football. (.>

Of course, for the Premier League, or indeed for Manchester City fans, they are most proud of the team pulling teeth from Real Madrid to snatch Argentine striker Sergio Aguero.

Although the media reported that Sergio Aguero agreed to move to Manchester City, on the one hand, Atletico Madrid was reluctant to sell his number one star to his rivals, but don't forget, Aguero himself said that he was eager to play with Yang Fan, and praised Manchester City as the most competitive team in football at the moment, which made Manchester City fans very happy. In the case of Tevez and the team's contradictions, and may transfer at any time, the arrival of Aguero has greatly made up for the strength of Manchester City's front, "The Times" said that Aguero will be Yang Fan's best partner on the front, in the case of Tevez may leave at any time, and Adebayo leaves, the arrival of Aguero has increased the strength of Manchester City's forward.

"With Yang Fan as a superstar in the line-up, supplemented by Sergio Aguero, Dzeko and Balotelli, Manchester City's forward line is more luxurious, and of course, if Tevez can change his mind, this forward combination will be even more terrifying......" - Bild praised Manchester City's luxurious attacking group in the 2011-1012 season, and considered it to be the second most attacking group in football after Real Madrid and Barcelona.

While the transfer market was still in full swing, Manchester City also ushered in the first game of the new season.